Patents by Inventor Edouard Negre

Edouard Negre has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230036400
    Abstract: A cooling system cools an electric machine including a casing, a rotor rotatably supported by the casing, and a stator fixed to the casing. The cooling system includes a flow circuit that brings a cooling liquid into contact with active parts of the electric machine. A main reservoir is provided in a lower portion of the casing. A pump injects the cooling liquid into the flow circuit. The level of cooling liquid in the casing interfaces with a lower portion of the rotor when the pump stops. A controller controls the pump to stop the pump when a temperature of the cooling liquid is below a given threshold, and start the pump as soon as the temperature of the liquid reaches the threshold such that the liquid is drawn by the main reservoir pump towards a secondary reservoir to lower the level of cooling liquid in the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Bassel ASSAAD, Edouard NEGRE
  • Patent number: 9685902
    Abstract: A control system for controlling power supply of an electric machine of an automobile and which contributes to movement thereof, wherein the control system is connected, at an input thereof, to a mechanism estimating a temperature of a rotor of the electric machine and to a temperature sensor measuring a temperature of a stator of the electric machine. The control system includes mappings of a set of values for allocating supply currents of the electric machine on the basis of torque and rotational speed request values received at the input of the control system, and includes a switching mechanism for selecting the mapping, the supply current signals of which are transmitted to the electric machine, on the basis of the signals from the mechanism estimating the temperature of the rotor and from the stator-temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: RENAULT s.a.s.
    Inventors: Edouard Negre, Thibaut Baumann
  • Patent number: 9664499
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the angular offset between the rotor and the stator of an electrical machine for driving a motor vehicle, the rotor being supplied with a rotor-energizing current and voltage, the stator being supplied over three phases with stator-phase currents and voltages, wherein the method includes the following steps: verifying that the electrical machine is stopped; applying a rotor-energizing signal for an amount of time capable of causing the partial magnetization of the rotor; applying a rotor-de-energizing signal capable of causing an active and rapid demagnetization of the rotor, while measuring, during the magnetization, the stator-phase currents and maintaining zero voltage among the phases of the stator; determining the direct stator currents and quadrature stator currents corresponding to the stator-phase currents measured by applying Park and Clarke transforms and in accordance with a measurement of the electrical position of the rotor; determining the maximu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: RENAULT s.a.s.
    Inventor: Edouard Negre
  • Patent number: 9621091
    Abstract: A system for controlling an automotive vehicle three-phase electric machine supplied via chopped voltages, including: a mechanism determining settings of current of phases of the electric machine as a function of a torque request from a driver; a regulating mechanism to determine voltages of each phase as a function of corresponding settings of current; a mechanism correcting torque oscillations, which can determine powers of each phase, to determine whether speed of rotation of the magnetic field exceeds a threshold value, to carry out a bandpass filtering of the powers, and to determine attenuation currents relating to each phase as a function of the post-filtering powers; subtractors configured to subtract the attenuation currents relating to each phase from the settings of current of the corresponding phases, destined for the regulating mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: RENAULT s.a.s.
    Inventors: Abdelmalek Maloum, Edouard Negre
  • Publication number: 20160248358
    Abstract: A system for controlling an automotive vehicle three-phase electric machine supplied via chopped voltages, including: a mechanism determining settings of current of phases of the electric machine as a function of a torque request from a driver; a regulating mechanism to determine voltages of each phase as a function of corresponding settings of current; a mechanism correcting torque oscillations, which can determine powers of each phase, to determine whether speed of rotation of the magnetic field exceeds a threshold value, to carry out a bandpass filtering of the powers, and to determine attenuation currents relating to each phase as a function of the post-filtering powers; subtractors configured to subtract the attenuation currents relating to each phase from the settings of current of the corresponding phases, destined for the regulating mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Abdelmalek MALOUM, Edouard NEGRE
  • Publication number: 20150134284
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the angular offset between the rotor and the stator of an electrical machine for driving a motor vehicle, the rotor being supplied with a rotor-energizing current and voltage, the stator being supplied over three phases with stator-phase currents and voltages, wherein the method includes the following steps: verifying that the electrical machine is stopped; applying a rotor-energizing signal for an amount of time capable of causing the partial magnetization of the rotor; applying a rotor-de-energizing signal capable of causing an active and rapid demagnetization of the rotor, while measuring, during the magnetization, the stator-phase currents and maintaining zero voltage among the phases of the stator; determining the direct stator currents and quadrature stator currents corresponding to the stator-phase currents measured by applying Park and Clarke transforms and in accordance with a measurement of the electrical position of the rotor; determining the maximu
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: RENAULT s.a.s.
    Inventor: Edouard Negre
  • Publication number: 20150029620
    Abstract: A control system for controlling power supply of an electric machine of an automobile and which contributes to movement thereof, wherein the control system is connected, at an input thereof, to a mechanism estimating a temperature of a rotor of the electric machine and to a temperature sensor measuring a temperature of a stator of the electric machine. The control system includes mappings of a set of values for allocating supply currents of the electric machine on the basis of torque and rotational speed request values received at the input of the control system, and includes a switching mechanism for selecting the mapping, the supply current signals of which are transmitted to the electric machine, on the basis of the signals from the mechanism estimating the temperature of the rotor and from the stator-temperature sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: RENAULT s.a.s.
    Inventors: Edouard Negre, Thibault Baumann